Do Blogs benefit from unique IP?

[gawdi]

Just setting up blog organiser so registering a shed load of blog domains...... Hosting company want to charge me 50c per unique ip per month... but i can use domains with same ip and it will cost me nothing... the question is, is it worth it for seo???

Opinions please

[-HF]

depending on how big a shed load it is, you might want to consider getting IPs in different ranges. which will usually mean a variety of hosters. that and using ABCD linking between the blogs should care for a relavtively genuine looking network of 'independent' sites.

[Nottslad]

In my experience the "different" IP numbers offered by a single hosting company on one account do not differ enough for there to be any positive benefits for SEO. As mentioned above it's almost certainly far better to spread between a mix of hosting companies and link cleverly so as not to identify your network. Of course, doing this has an added cost and complicates your management - so maybe not worth it until you max out your transfer allowance at one hosts smallest package, then move onto the next.

Also sprinkle in a few free blog hosting services, throw up some similar niche blogs and link from those too.

[Nottslad]

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How big is a "shedload"? Say it's 20 at 50 cents a pop you'd be far better off spending that $10 on a hosting account with a different company entirely.

[gawdi]

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How big is a "shedload"? Say it's 20 at 50 cents a pop you'd be far better off spending that $10 on a hosting account with a different company entirely.

Wont go into actual figures........ trialling 10 at the moment..... if successful will build on that success in a big way.....

[servhot]

If the ip range would count that much, 80% of all sites would be ranked much lower as they are.

[Scotty.T]

In my experience the "different" IP numbers offered by a single hosting company on one account do not differ enough for there to be any positive benefits for SEO.

Now I had always heard that it was different class C's that would make the difference. (255.255.255.0).

This subject gets brought up a lot on various different places. The last thing I read pointed to a Matt Cutts article (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/myth-busting-virtual-hosts-vs-dedicated-ip-addresses/).

"They were commenting on the misconception that having multiple sites hosted on the same IP address will in some way affect the PageRanks of those sites. There is no PageRank difference whatsoever between these two cases (virtual hosting vs. a dedicated IP)."

Now one part specifically talks about the affect on PageRank and virtual vs. dedicated IP's, and another part isn't as specific. It just says the following without reference to PageRank specifically.

"Google handles virtually hosted domains and their links just the same as domains on unique IP addresses."

[-HF]

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How big is a "shedload"? Say it's 20 at 50 cents a pop you'd be far better off spending that $10 on a hosting account with a different company entirely.
there are hosters offering dedicated hosting for blogs. Cyberwurx for example starts the smallest at US$ 5.00 which already gives you 300 MB and 5 domains and 5 GB transfer, way enough if you use something like BlogsOrganiser, as the actual server hit with higher volume is the one hosting the images for your blogs, either your BO install, or your Gallery Scraper install or the sponsor's feed hosting. the blog itself merely serves the bit of code provided through an include.

[Sexvilly]

if you go for new ips, I'd recommend to organize your sites by niche... all your shemale sites sit on ip #1... all your voyeur sites sit on ip #2... etc...

[Thursby]

From an SEO point of view it's the relationship between the IP block of the referring site and that of the target site that's addressed by the ranking algorithm. It doesn't matter how many sites share the IP address of the target site. This is because it's obviously simpler and cheaper to slam up 20 referring sites (blogs or whatever) in the same webspace or with the same host as the target site than it is to spread them across hosts. You can also have issues where two apparently unconnected hosting resellers are sub-letting from the same netblock owner.

[gawdi]

OK another question on this...... if IP not so important what about domain???
What effect does having a blog with individual domain have over a blog which is an extension of an domain i.e.
www.xxxblog.com over www.xxxblog.com/blog

[Thursby]

In the example you give, the domainname.com/blog would be treated as content within a folder of the root domain, because that's what it is. For the sake of a few quid, it's well worth getting an additional domain to help define the content better.